Jatiya Party

The Jatiya Party is a conservative political party in Bangladesh that was founded on 1 January 1986 by the retired army officer and Bangladeshi strongman Hussain Muhammad Ershad. The party was founded by Ershad as the dominant party in his one-party state, and the party maintained dictatorial control over the country until the 1990 restoration of democracy. The party boycotted the 2014 election, as did the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and other right-wing political parties in the country, but it held 40/350 Jatiyo Sangshad seats in 2017.